Kurt Warner raised eyebrows last week following the Chicago Bears‘ loss to the Washington Commanders. Caleb Williams didn’t have the best game, so it was assumed the critical Warner would dress down his performance. Instead, the Hall of Famer took a thinly veiled shot at offensive coordinator Shane Waldron for not doing a good enough job getting his young quarterback easier looks. That was the first big red flag that something was seriously wrong with the Bears’ passing game.
Now, following another ugly showing in Arizona, two more former quarterbacks have come out blasting Waldron. Dan Orlovsky of ESPN did a three-minute breakdown of how Waldron’s passing game concepts make no sense. It is almost impossible to determine what the Bears coordinator wants to accomplish. He wasn’t alone. Longtime former backup Chase Daniel did an even more extensive breakdown on YouTube, and he echoed those same thoughts.
Williams is surviving Shane Waldron at this point.
It should be considered a minor miracle that he hasn’t played worse over the past two weeks. Despite taking nine sacks, he has managed to avoid throwing any interceptions. His 65.4 passer rating is mostly due to his low 49.23 completion percentage. That goes back to what Orlovsky and Daniels talked about. Waldron isn’t doing enough to get Williams easier completions. What makes it all the more baffling is that he seemed to do exactly that in the three previous games before the bye week.
Brad Biggs indicated recently that players in the locker room would welcome a change at offensive coordinator. However, there is almost no way Eberflus will dismiss Shane Waldron. If he does that, it will be a glaring admission that he had once again failed to find the right guy for this team after dumping Luke Getsy in January. It would be tantamount to career suicide. That means one of two things happened. Either Waldron stays put, and the Bears pray he figures it out, or a change comes from higher up the chain.
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For Williams’ sake, something needs to happen soon.
Incredible – we have a coach who is historically bad for the franchise who management won’t fire. A coordinator who suffers the same affliction as the last OC – namely not using the talent to it’s strengths who management won’t fire because they’re willing to stay the course. Insane. Not to mention we were sold on a “generational” QB that looks like the last QB without the same level of athleticism. But everything stays the same. Maybe the Bears won’t be any good until there’s new ownership that will focus on accountability. Truly sad for such a loyal fan base.
I watched the entire Chase Daniels review and he’s not really indicting Waldron as the writer asserts. Most of the errors are on Caleb Williams and it’s a pretty compelling piece of film review. 85% of the film review is pointing out rookie mistakes, poor WR choices, poor protection calls, and just not checking down to the easy completions. My takeaway is that Caleb is bringing most of this on himself. Daniels states and I agree that Caleb will get better. But we are witnessing a ton of rookie QB mistakes. It seems DJ Moore, Keenan and Co are probably… Read more »
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@Tred: If Caleb isn’t generational, that’s on Poles. If Caleb is generational, but is being held back by coaching, that’s on Waldron and Flus. Let’s not just go all knee jerk and fire everybody, let’s be methodical and sensible about it, looking at evidence and making intelligent decisions about that evidence.
Here is a crazy thought. The last two QBs we spent a small fortune to get here in Chicago were Mitch and Justin Fields. When they failed, the GMs and HCs stayed, and they got dumped. Why not try something different? If Caleb doesn’t look like the number 1 pick, generational talent, next Patrick Mahomes QB we were promised at the end of the season, why not dump the GM and HC for failing to develop this incredible talent correctly? If Caleb isn’t 100% of what was promised, why not tell Poles and Eberflus, “Sorry guys, but you’re failing our… Read more »